# schola
## English
### Etymology

From Latin schola. Doublet of school and shul.

### Noun

schola (plural scholas or scholae)
* Originally, a musical school attached to a monastery or church. Also known as a schola cantorum.
* Today, a group of musicians, particularly one which specializes in liturgical music.

### Anagrams

* cholas

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈskʰo.la/, [ˈs̠kʰɔɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsko.la/, [ˈskɔːlä]

### Noun

schola f (genitive scholae); first declension
* Leisure time given to learning; schooltime, classtime.
** c. ad 65, Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, CVI.
    non vitæ sed scholæ discimvs
       We learn [such literature] not for life but for schooltime.
* A school; a place for learning or instruction.
** 1804 Jun 12, Oberdeutsche Allgemeine Litteraturzeitung, No. 70, p. 1119
    non scholæ sed vitæ discendvm estWe must learn not for school but for life.
* A student body; the disciples of a teacher.
* A school (especially a secondary school), a sect; body of followers of a teacher or system, such as those of a philosopher or the Praetorian guard
    Near-synonym: lūdus
* An art gallery.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* scholāris
* scholasticē
* scholasticus

#### Descendants

* Gallo-Italic
** Lombard: scöla, scöra
* Italo-Dalmatian
** Corsican: scola
** Dalmatian: scol, skól, skuol, scol, scól, scuol
** Gallurese: iscola
** Italian: scuola, scola (dialectal or archaic), squola (misspelling)
*** → Serbo-Croatian: škȏla / шко̑ла
** Neapolitan: scola
** Sassarese: ischora
** Sicilian: scola
* Old Occitan:
** Catalan: escola
** Occitan: escòla
* Rhaeto-Romance
** Friulian: scuele
** Ladin: scola
** Romansch: scola, scoula (Puter, Vallader)
* Sardinian: isciola, iscola, scola
* Venetan: scoła, scola
** → Cimbrian: skoul
* West Iberian
** → Andalusian Arabic: اشكولة (ʔiškūla)
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: escuela
*** Mirandese: scuola
** Old Galician-Portuguese: escola
*** Galician: escola
*** Portuguese: escola (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish:
*** Ladino:
    Hebrew script: סקולה
    Latin script: skola, eskola
*** Spanish: escuela (see there for further descendants)
* → Albanian: shkollë
* → Proto-Brythonic: *skol (see there for further descendants)
* → English: schola
* → Old French: escole
** Franc-Comtois: écôle
** Middle French: eschole
*** French: école
**** Haitian Creole: lekòl
**** → Bambara: ekɔli, lakɔli
**** → Moore: lekolle
**** Turkish: ekol
** Norman: êcole
** Walloon: scole, sicole
* → Old Irish: scol
** Irish: scoil
** Manx: scoill
** Scottish Gaelic: sgoil
* → Proto-West Germanic: *skōlu (see there for further descendants)
* → Romanian: școală (via a Slavic language)

### References

* “schola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “schola”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* schola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a school for higher education: schola to go to a school: scholam frequentare to exert oneself in the schools: desudare in scholae umbra or umbraculis a sect, school of thought: schola, disciplina, familia; secta to give lectures: scholas habere, explicare (Fin. 2. 1. 1) to attend lectures: scholis interesse
* “schola”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ). Doublet of szkoła.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsxɔ.la/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Syllabification: scho‧la

### Noun

schola f (diminutive scholka)
* (education, music) schola (musical school attached to a monastery or church)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* schola in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin schola.

### Noun

schola f (plural scholas)
* Obsolete spelling of escola.